Experts

Charles was educated at the University of Strathclyde and Birkbeck College, University of London. He worked for eight years as an economist at the Bank of England, and has taught at the University of Reading, the University of Durham, the University of St Andrews and is currently employed at the University of Glasgow in the Adam Smith Business School. His current research interests include macroeconomics, monetary economics and macroprudential regulation.

Anne Nolan is an Associate Research Professor at the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) in Dublin, and an Adjunct Professor in Economics at Trinity College Dublin. She is on the Study Team Management Group of the Growing up in Ireland (GUI), and is a research affiliate at the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA). Her research at the ESRI focuses on issues such as the social determinants of health, healthcare financing and access, and the challenges of population ageing.

I am an applied microeconomist and my current work falls broadly into two categories: (i) skill development and parenting and (ii) mental health and features of the school environment. In general, I am interested in exploring mechanisms impacting skill development and mental health among children and adolescence that may be relevant for policy.

Dennis Novy is Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick. He is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and an Associate at the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) at the London School of Economics. He works on international trade, international economics and macroeconomics. Dennis was appointed to the UK Council of Economic Advisers in 2018. He was the Specialist Adviser to the House of Lords on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).

Joanna Nowinska is an Assistant Economist in the Macro-Economic Modelling and Forecasting team at NIESR. She is responsible for the database underlying the renowned NiGEM model and also provides the data analysis for NIESR’s trackers. Joanna graduated from Clare College, University of Cambridge and joined NIESR from Macquarie Capital, an investment bank, where she worked as an analyst in the Infrastructure & Energy Advisory (M&A) team. Joanna’s research interests include economic

Ilan Noy is the Chair in the Economics of Disasters and Climate Change at Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington, in New Zealand. His research and teaching focus on the economic aspects of hazards, disasters, and climate change, and other related topics. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of Economics of Disasters and Climate Change, a journal published by SpringerNature.